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jamesstringerparsec / Easy-GPU-PV

A Project dedicated to making GPU Partitioning on Windows easier!
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Unable to update GPU drivers for VM with more than one drive #318

Closed gitinit263 closed 1 year ago

gitinit263 commented 1 year ago

When I run the updater to update my Grahpics Card Drivers I'm encountering the following error message with a similar error recurring multiple times before Dismounting and saying Done. I think it could be because my VM has two drives (F and H) but don't know how to resolve the issue, is there a way to manually update the VM's graphics card drivers or do I need to edit something with the updater?

My initial input: PS C:\Users\pc\Downloads\Easy-GPU-PV-main\Easy-GPU-PV-main> .\Update-VMGpuPartitionDriver.ps1 -VMName GPUPVM1 -GPUName AUTO

Powershell: Mounting Drive... Copying GPU Files - this could take a while... INFO : Finding and copying driver files for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 to VM. This could take a while... New-Item : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'F H' does not exist. At C:\Users\pc\Downloads\Easy-GPU-PV-main\Easy-GPU-PV-main\Add-VMGpuPartitionAdapterFiles.psm1:29 char:1

Copy-item : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'F H' does not exist. At C:\Users\pc\Downloads\Easy-GPU-PV-main\Easy-GPU-PV-main\Add-VMGpuPartitionAdapterFiles.psm1:36 char:17

mitchellurgero commented 1 year ago

I would shutdown the VM, remove the 2 extra drives, update GPU, add the drives back - VM will never know.

Edit: I believe you can just disconnect the drives virtually in the settings without needed to "remove" them as well, might want to explore that. Also make sure you don't accidentally delete the extra disks too!

gitinit263 commented 1 year ago

I was going to follow your suggestion and it led me to finding the problem.

I had previously extended the volume and been confused about why it showed as a second drive in the system and figured id just misconfigured the second volumes directory and decided to live with it, when i mounted the virtual disk i only saw the second drives contents and could never find the first drive in hyper v manager or anywhere else. After your comment i decided to finally try and hunt it down to fix it. After a bit of investigation i figured it out:

Extending the virtual hard disk had expanded the drive and the VM had just made it a second partition. Deleting the partition and expanding the original partition resolved the issue and allowed me to run the updater.